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44) Hanukkah hamster
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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After finding a hamster that has been left behind in his taxi, a lonely immigrant cab driver celebrates Hanukkah with the little creature, while waiting to learn if the owner will return.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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In 1938, Edith Westerfeld, a young German Jew, is sent by her parents to Chicago, Illinois, where she lives with an aunt and uncle and tries to assimilate into American culture, while worrying about her parents and mourning the loss of everything she has ever known. Based on the author's mother's experience, includes an afterword about a little-known program that brought twelve hundred Jewish children to safety during World War II.
Author
Series
Lola Levine volume 6
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Lola upsets her best friends by playing Halloween tricks on them but with help from her family, she may still be able to enjoy her favorite holiday.
Author
Series
American girl BeForever. Rebecca, 1914 volume 2
American girl BeForever. Rebecca 1914 volume 2
Rebecca classic volume 2
American girl BeForever. Rebecca 1914 volume 2
Rebecca classic volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Rebecca is thrilled to spend the day at a real movie studio, and when a super, spectacular opportunity presents itself, she is quick to volunteer. But how will this scene play out? Then, on a visit to Coney Island, Rebecca gets the chance to use her acting skills to lighten the mood in an embarrassing situation--and her climbing skills to rescue someone in a dangerous spot. But a factory tour makes Rebecca believe her skills are needed there, too....
51) Rachel's roses
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the early 1900s, third-grader Rachel's mother boldly starts her own dressmaking business and Rachel discovers the perfect way to set herself apart from tagalong little sister Hannah on Rosh Hashanah.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"Jacob loves baseball, and he knows his team counts on him. But when a critical game is scheduled on the holiday of Yom Kippur, he doesn't know what to do. In this reflection of the Sandy Koufax story, Jacob discovers the value of prayer and of being on different kinds of teams"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In Washington, D.C., during the Great Depression, Muriel and her family have no money to prepare the seder meal until a mysterious stranger performs a Passover miracle. Includes notes on the Passover holiday, the Great Depression, and the history of the D.C. Jewish community.
55) Going bicoastal
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Told in alternating timelines, Jewish seventeen-year-old Natalya spends one summer in New York with her dad, trying to muster the courage to talk to her girl crush, and the other in Los Angeles with her estranged mom, going for a guy she never saw coming.
56) Brooklyn Bridge
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge.
Author
Series
Outlaw Saints novel volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Simultaneous battles rage in the Caribbean and Brooklyn as sixteen-year-olds Mateo and Chela, two gods-turned-teenagers, try to get to the bottom of what is keeping them apart.
Author
Series
Outlaw saints volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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2024 Summer Reading: Ahoy Summer!
If You Like Harry Potter, Read These *Adult Books*
Jewish Heritage Month - Young Adult/Adult
Mythology Reads - Adult/YA
If You Like Harry Potter, Read These *Adult Books*
Jewish Heritage Month - Young Adult/Adult
Mythology Reads - Adult/YA
Description
When sixteen-year-old Mateo and Chela discover each other and their powers during a political battle between neighborhood factions, they set aside their differences to unravel the mystery behind their sunken homeland and to stop a dangerous political operative who is trying to harness their gifts to unleash terror on the world.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
In 1905 North Dakota, eleven-year-old Russian immigrant Shoshana is bullied for being Jewish, but after listening to the music of her homeland, she is reminded of the resilience and traditions her people have brought all the way to the prairie.
Author
Series
American girl BeForever. Rebecca, 1914 volume 1
Rebecca classic volume 1
American girl BeForever. Rebecca 1914 volume 1
Rebecca classic volume 1
American girl BeForever. Rebecca 1914 volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Rebecca Rubin is growing up in the bustling city of New York in 1914. She dreams of being a star on the silver screen, but her performance this year is on the stage at school. She has to share the spotlight with her cousin Ana, though, and Rebecca fears the audience will laugh instead of applaud. Will Ana hurt or help the performance? Then, being included in a special plan fills Rebecca with joy. But what act of kindness teaches her the true meaning...
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